It seemed this was the article In Ho mentioned in the morning.
The enormous headline overshadowed the pictures, which were barely visible.
Yet, Su Yeon made no effort to pick up the tablet and verify the news.
Rather, she bent over from the waist without hesitation.
“I…I’m sorry.”
The words came out as if by habit.
She didn’t know exactly what she should be apologizing for.
However, bowing her head like this and admitting her mistake was the only method she knew to mitigate the upcoming stream of verbal abuse she was bound to face.
“This is why people need to be careful, tsk tsk tsk.”
Su Yeon was frozen midway, unable to straighten her back.
Her eyes were spinning dizzily and she bit down hard on her lower lip.
It wasn’t a surprise.
Being at the receiving end of her motherinlaw Young Sun’s abuse had become so common, it almost made her skin crawl.
But today, it was particularly hard to bear.
“If you weren’t so worthless, would the whole country know that the man, already married, has a woman clinging onto him?”
“…”
“Did I tell you to have a child quickly or not?”
The moment her motherinlaw mentioned a child, Su Yeon felt a heavy, stifling sensation in her chest, as if she was going to suffocate to death.
It was a phrase she had to hear every time she visited this house under the pretense of receiving guidance.
“When exactly do you plan to get pregnant?”
“You married deceiving all the family members. Don’t you think you should at least give birth well?”
“Don’t tell me you have a problem? Can’t even get pregnant, did you deceive us with that too?”
Countless.
If she tried to enumerate all similar words, it would overload her brain, making it impossible to recall all.
Her motherinlaw hadn’t always been this cruel.
“Our daughterinlaw cuts fruit so beautifully.”
“Daughterinlaw, how about this? I bought it thinking it would suit you.”
“Su Yeon, I think of you first, whether I eat something delicious or see something pretty. That’s why I visit you like this. But if my coming is a nuisance, you should tell me anytime. I don’t mean it just for the sake of saying. I don’t want to fulfill my desires by making you uncomfortable. So, if you feel uncomfortable, you must tell me. You got it?”
In the beginning, she was a really good motherinlaw, and she was a warmer elder than anyone else.
The change in Young Sun started from the time she found out that Su Yeon wasn’t the real daughter of the Tae Shin group, but an adopted child.
Through her marriage with In Ho, Su Yeon realized two things she had never known before.
One was how blissful it is to live comfortably without caring about others, and the other was that perhaps the time before she married In Ho was still bearable.
Even though it was a marriage out of necessity, In Ho was a good husband, and all the elders were always warm to her.
This fact made her so happy that she had to hold back her tears every night before she fell asleep.
She no longer had to suffer from her parentsinlaw’s daily evening pressure to marry. She didn’t have to tolerate and endure the unreasonable situations caused by the harassment of her nonbloodrelated sibling. The fact that she could spend all day without having to be cautious felt like a dream.
That’s why she wanted to do better.
For In Ho, and for her parentsinlaw.
But after Young Sun found out about her adoption, Su Yeon had to harshly realize that there could exist a hell worse than the one she had known until now.
“Are you two maintaining your marital relationship properly? Don’t tell me, In Ho is seeing someone else?”
“No, that’s not true. There’s really no such thing, mother.”
“Oh, my head. Because of you, I don’t have a day without a headache!”
Young Sun frowned and shivered.
It was a stark contrast from her normally elegant voice, but Su Yeon calmly drew a breath.
But it was strange.
Surprisingly, today her breath came easier.
Normally, it should feel as if her breath was choked.
Even after breathing in and out, it felt like her lungs were filled with stones, and her chest was so congested that it seemed like she would die.
But today, her breathing was too easy.
It didn’t take long to realize why.
“If In Ho is having an affair, it’s all your fault! If you didn’t nag him like this, why would he look elsewhere?”
When a barrage of insults, not insults, from Yeongseon continued in succession, Su Yeon was able to understand why she was so unusually fine today.
It felt as if she had finally arrived at the edge of a real precipice.
It was now that she had finally reached the very edge where she could not move at all.
The moment she realized that fact, Su Yeon was not at all terrified.
On the contrary, she felt a sense of relief inside.
Because it seemed there would be no regrets anymore.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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